The SarahCuda on the attack
posted at 12:45 pm on October 4, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The Free Sarah Palin strategy has already begun to pay dividends. Palin returned to the traditional running-mate role of attack dog, reminding voters of Barack Obama’s accusation that American troops had a strategy in Afghanistan of “air-raiding villages and bombing civilians”. Palin considers that a disqualifying event for a person seeking the position of Commander in Chief:
Speaking to Fox News on Friday, Sarah Palin indicated for the first time that she does not consider Barack Obama qualified to be commander in chief and sharply criticized him for saying last year that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are “just air raiding villages and killing civilians.”
Calling Obama “reckless,” Palin said that where she comes from Obama’s remarks “disqualify someone from consideration for the next commander-in-chief.”
“Some of his comments that he’s made about the war, that I think, in my world disqualify someone from consideration for the next commander-in-chief,” said Palin. “Some of the comments he’s made about Afghanistan, what we are doing there, ‘just air raiding villages and killing civilians.’ That’s reckless.”
Those comments came in August 2007, when Obama tried criticizing the Bush administration’s military strategy in Afghanistan. Here’s the video:
Palin does a good job in bringing this back to the forefront. Either Obama meant to smear the military leadership in Afghanistan, including that of our allies, or he didn’t have the first clue what he was saying. Neither commends itself for someone who would command our military during this war, especially the fact that Obama made that accusation without ever having traveled to Afghanistan to see the situation for himself.
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She’s hitting on Ayers now. It’s on!
Mark1971 on October 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Sweet Jesus!!! I was seconds from calling the campaign and making it clear that if we do not see the “fight with me” walk instead of talk I will request a refund so I can give it to Sarah’s campaign in 4-years.
Though, I will credit Lorien – he is right about needing to run against the congress on the FM/FM debacle to show she’s taking it to the streets.
Editor on October 4, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Obama – Rezko
He now denounces Rezko but HE KNEW IT BACK THEN
Obama – Wright
He now denounces Wright but HE KNEW IT BACK THEN
Obama – Ayers
He now denounces his past behavior but HE KNEW IT BACK THEN
Is it really that easy?
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 3:15 PM
GOOD. They need to pound him with his “air raiding” villages comment, his associations, his Marxism. I don’t want to see ads talking about his spending…I want to see them call him a SOCIALIST. And who better to do that then the ‘Cuda?
changer1701 on October 4, 2008 at 3:16 PM
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 3:15 PM
It is when your black. Ask Charles Barkley.
Too racist? I don’t give a f***. It’s the truth.
Cardiganfox on October 4, 2008 at 3:17 PM
I’m still laughing about a comment someone wrote yesterday. In the Michigan withdrawal thread. Wait, I retrieved. Here it is:
I feel as if I’m watching a trainwreck with McCain. He was terrible yesterday in two morning TV appearances. He wants to talk about the surge, and the middle 20% of swing-state voters are consumed with the issue that’s he’s sprinting from. For crying out loud, he’s even managed to get outflanked on energy. The guy doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Iowa, yet he was campaigning there Wednesday or Thursday. He should be exposing Obama as an ethanol queen. Subsidizing a useless energy source. What kind of sense does that make?
F*** this guy, where’s Romney? McCain needs to contract a staph infection.
BuckeyeSam on October 4, 2008 at 3:17 PM
This is awesome news. Palin is bringing on the Barracuda. I am waiting for McCain to do the same on Tuesday.
jencab on October 4, 2008 at 3:19 PM
I honestly don’t know. I wish I did. He’d do it if they would let him. I loved his optimism and his message about Michigan in the primary.
Spirit of 1776 on October 4, 2008 at 3:19 PM
“Pal-ing around with terrorists” is the perfect way to put it, too, even if no one knows how to spell it – not least because Ayers isn’t the only terorrist Obama’s pal-ed around with. It’s such a normal person’s accurate description of the simple truth, that, especially if Palin repeats it, Obama may even be forced to attempt to dispute it again, as in that bizarre “I AM NOT A TERORRIST’S PAL” ad that his campaign put up a few weeks ago.
The objective of the McCain character attacks may have to be to force Obama to respond directly to them. Palin’s persona – just a normal person reacting to the facts as she sees them, and the facts are WEIRD – makes her able to say things that everyone else finds unmentionable. I’d love to hear her express her dismay at the revelations about the Dem’s Banking Committe Chairman literally sleeping with the enemy.
CK MacLeod on October 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Make him waste money defending himself and throwing lawyers around to silence people, it’ll make Michigan look like a joke compared to that expense.
Cardiganfox on October 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Good for her. I hope Sarah keeps it up.
Terrye on October 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Oh yeah, the way for McCain to win this election is to attack the Bush administration a month out of the election.
Thank God his campaign doesn’t take your advice.
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 3:24 PM
I hope she mentions the crap going on in Mizzou, etc. The more she exposes the better.
Spirit of 1776 on October 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM
At least she has the … guts to bring on the noise.
V15J on October 4, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Ed? Allah? Do you have any standards at all on this website?
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Let me know when McCain wakes from his nap. I got lectured by a middle-of-the-road voter today in Ohio, and I’m powerless to do anything.
Have at it.
BuckeyeSam on October 4, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Eh, too little, too late. McCain’s surrogates should have pounded away on Rev. Wright, Ayers/Dohrn and Barry’s past drug use from the start. Supporting the bailout was the final nail in the McCain campaign’s coffin.
Noneya on October 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM
For now and for the future, Palin needs to take a stand as in her debate closing statement – the voice of the defense of freedom against its systematic extinction by the very same people (and their enablers including at the very top) who tried to destroy her. Barnes is right in his TWS column released today: The campaign needs to put her front and center and everywhere else, too. Their objective should be to overexpose her if possible – especially since it isn’t possible.
CK MacLeod on October 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Apologies for being redundant, but this is important if you don’t want to see President Obama next year.
The GOP needs your help this year.
With the liberal media working overtime to con America, with the liberal Congress playing politics with America’s economy, with groups like ACORN working to counter the votes cast by American citizens the GOP finds itself surrounded on all sides as democrats begin to finally socialize America.
There are a lot of decent people that visit this site, and most are none too happy with the way things are going. We crab consistently as we feel we have the right to do. Now is the chance to make a real difference instead of spitting into the wind!
Sign up at your local GOP headquarters to volunteer a bit of your time. This is not a full time position, no one expects you to be happy with everything the GOP is/has done [I'm certainly not], but if you become one of the cut-and-run republicans then you will make the socialist democrats very happy. In other words, stay home and you will put a great big smile on ACORN’s/Obama’s face. Do you really want to do that, or would you rather stick it to them?
Sign up at your local GOP headquarters ASAP. I did so last Thursday [before Sarah strutted her stuff] right after a 9 hour work day.
Remember the phrase, “Doing the work that Americans refuse to do”? Are you going to leave all of the hard work for this real American to do? :oP
P.S.: For any who refuse to stand up and be counted, and wish to give your excuses for staying home on your well rounded derrieres, I have an answer ready for you. The liberal socialists love you, and Barney Frank sends you a great big kiss.
DannoJyd on October 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM
If Romney offered to spend a week campaigning for McCain in Michigan and Nevada, you people really think McCain would turn him down?
You really are nuts if you believe that.
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Let’s just hope that the campaign knows what it is doing and we do not. All I here about is it is too early, too early. Maybe people really do vote on what they hear in the last 72 hours and the 2 years before that is all bull crap. I don’t have a clue. If I did, my name would be Carl Rove and everyone would refer to me as “the magnificent bastard!”
Mr_Magoo on October 4, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I disagree that the McCain campaign waited too long to bring this up. Now is the right time because it is now that undecideds will be making up their mind – within 1 month to the election. If McCain had been talking about this since the summer, the issue would have been thoroughly hashed out. Now Obama will have to spend some critical time defending himself.
The Rev. Wright issue came up too early, during the Dem primaries, something you can probably thank the Clintons for. It gave Obama the opportunity to strongly and publicly distance himself from Trinity and from Rev. Wright.
Kenrod on October 4, 2008 at 3:39 PM
I agree completely with your analysis. And from the looks of things, they have taken the leash off of SarahCuda and she is going freaking NUTS all over them.
ManlyRash on October 4, 2008 at 3:44 PM
For others, it’s an unfair attack. Who for example? Why Allahpundit of coarse!
Video: Let’s stop “just air-raiding villages and killing civilians” in Afghanistan, says Messiah; Update: AP “fact checks” GOP attacks on Obama quote
TheBigOldDog on October 4, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Time is way over due to play nice with Barack Hussein Obama. Since the MSM won’t vet him, It’s high time for John McCain and Sarah Palin to put it to the news, so their comments will be printed.
Biraq Oblahblah is nothing but a Saul Alinsky mentored, socialist/Marxist crack/pot smoking, cocaine snorting, abortion/partial birth/infanticide loving, we don’t know if he’s an American/Kenyan/Indonesian citizen or not, hate America, typical Chicago hustling thug, by the name of Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, Barry Dunham, Barack Dunham!
byteshredder on October 4, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Heh. Time for an ad. AP: wrong on killing civilians, wrong on sex-education.
Spirit of 1776 on October 4, 2008 at 3:53 PM
John McCain, fighter pilot and POW.
Barack Obama, coke-sniffing community organizer.
Keep the attacks on Barry extremely personal, extremely mean and extremely persistent.
Or this cretin will be Commander In Chief of a military he attempted to send into ignominious defeat at the hands of terrorist al-Qaeda clones in Iraq.
NObama!
profitsbeard on October 4, 2008 at 3:58 PM
I doubt seriously if she is libertarian…. a libertarian is a liberal with tighter purse strings.
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM
…bingo….
…the Divine Sarah and the rest of the Republican Party needs to do one thing above everything else: hang the Democratic Party around Obama’s neck.
Their twisted social engineering, insisting that the insolvent get mortgages for racial or cultural or other feel-good reasons, in violation of all sound business and banking practices, will cost folks who played by the rules jobs and retirement income.
The Democratic Party’s nearly concerted hampering, tampering, whimpering and outright treason where the wars in Iraq and Afganistan are concerned, not to mention Murtha’s accusations and Durbin’s comparisons of our troops with the Khmer Rouge, should resonate from now until November 5th (at least), preceeded by “Evidently, Obama agrees that…”.
Don’t just hang Wright, Pflegger, Ayers, Dorn, Rezko, Raines, Johnson, and his “proud to be an American…finally” wife around his neck…and his gaffe-a-day running mate, but brand him with his situationally loyal party. Dare to question his patriotism.
It’s time to start pitching nasty….
Puritan1648 on October 4, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Oh, it gets a lot better becuase he had the audacity just a few days later to criticize the military for being too risk averse and therefore too slow to pull the trigger in the same theater.
Newsweek: Jihadis nearly killed Osama in 2004 to prevent capture by U.S. troops
When I pointed out the inconsistency, this resulted:
TheBigOldDog on October 4, 2008 at 4:04 PM
The AP is actually citing the NYT article to downplay Obama’s connections…dear god
lodge on October 4, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Economic arguments that McCain evidently won’t offer. He’ll stick with talking about a spending freeze.
Must reading from Thomas Sowell at NRO:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NGRjODM1MTJlOGZiZDk2ODI4NTUzMWMxYjgwMjliMGQ=
Also, someone asked about Stanely Kurtz. Here, from today at NRO:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWI0MjY3NzMyODgxZGM2ZjUwNTE1MmEzOGRiZmFkNWE=
BuckeyeSam on October 4, 2008 at 4:07 PM
OK, here’s the response for ‘Cuda when Obama whines about it being a long time ago, yada yada:
“When it comes to terrorists, you can wrap an old domestic terrorist in a cloak that says “change” and even put lipstick on him, but he’s still a proud radical leftist.”
Something like that.
econavenger on October 4, 2008 at 4:13 PM
DannoJyd, profitsbeard, byteshredder
THAT’S THE SPIRIT!
thanks guys
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Big Old Dog–the sad thing is, even callow youth troop-basher Allahpundit is a better candidate for commander in chief than the Obamassiah.
But people here (including Allahpundit of course) would rather sit and criticize McCain than turn their fire on Obama.
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Hmmmm… you saying AP is astroturfing his own site? The plot thickens….
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 4:17 PM
So let me get this right: McCain’s ninth inning strategy is going to be to concede, “Yes, we accept and acknowledge we are offering nothing more than Bush’s third term, but you know what? Forget about your mortgage, forget about your job, forget about your standard of living and your children’s standard of living, forget about health care, social security, permanent troops in Iraq and repeat after me: That other guy Obama is a bad, bad, man, did you hear me? He’s a bad, bad, bad, man, Sara and I will scream it from the rooftops between now and Election Day. HE’S A BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, MAN and that’s why you should vote for me and my cheerleader because we’re offering Bush’s third term, and if you loved his first eight years, then you’ll love the next four I promise.”
How inspiring, Senator Campaign First. If a media, determined to dumb people down, didn’t exist, the McCain campaign would have to invent one.
sanguine4 on October 4, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Is it Monday? Nope. Am I in a car? Nope. I’ve never seen so many Monday Morning Quarterbacks and back seat drivers. I would be very interested in the actual presidential campaign strategy experience all the nay sayers have.
I know they brought in the guy that worked with Rove for some time… when Obama’s head got big enough, they dropped Paris Hilton on him…. ssssssssssssssss. Let the air out. Winning polls 30 days out DOES NOT win elections. I suspect (and sincerely hope) this guy knows considerably more than the sum of everything I’ve seen posted on HA.
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Unleash the Cuda, leash McLame
Wade on October 4, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Well… er… except for maybe Ohio….
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 4:31 PM
sanguine4 at 4:18 PM-
Don’t be silly.
There are many synonyms for BAD.
They need to be creative in their evisceration of this venal, lying, shallow, malicious, crypto-Marxist empty suit.
profitsbeard on October 4, 2008 at 4:33 PM
You cheated… You looked up the definition of “Obama” in the dictionary.
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 4:34 PM
sanguine4, yep, McCain’s just been a quitter his whole life, hasn’t he?
Yep, your prediction certainly follows the pattern of the man’s life.
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 4:39 PM
I want to see the “surrender, socialism and subprime mortgages” theme.
lodge on October 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Drudge sinks Obama: “Palin says Obama ‘palling around’ with terrorists…
‘This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America’…”
That little extra bit, if Biden wants to talk about prologues, this is Obamas political conclusion.
Cardiganfox on October 4, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Ayers-Obama.
One’s a Terrorist
One’s “friendly with” a Terrorist
I Ask You, What’s really the difference?
Amadeus on October 4, 2008 at 4:47 PM
CC-
Si, si.
profitsbeard on October 4, 2008 at 4:47 PM
What I recommend for McCain/Palin (from my blog):
Dear Senator McCain and Governor Palin,
Please drop the goofy economic populism. You can’t out-populist Obama Bin Biden, and there’s a better way to convince voters that your economic plan is better. Simply explain how conservative economic principles work every time they are tried. Biden trashed Bush economics all last night at the debate, and all Palin could say in response was, “Let’s look forward instead”. Bush’s tax cuts revived the economy from the recession he inherited from Clinton, and tax cuts revived us again after 9/11. The biggest problem with Bush’s economics has been not tax policy, but spending like a Democrat. And why is the economy suffering now? Because of government limiting where “evil Exxon/Mobile” can drill, and because of government taking over the mortgage industry, where criminals like Jim Johnson and Frank Raines (now Obama advisors) cooked the books at F and F.
jgapinoy on October 4, 2008 at 4:48 PM
LOL…They let me sign up and post…dose that answer your question?
Just kidding, I’m taking a day off from recording a new song and the beer is cold and it is good.
LOL
Old Hippie Vet on October 4, 2008 at 4:49 PM
For Every Lie Spread About Sarah, There’s a Truth About OBonzo.
franksalterego on October 4, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Drudge should link the entire comment instead of the soundbite with AP spin.
econavenger on October 4, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Just today, here at hotair, someone blasted McCain for taking this weekend off. Their point was “Palin hit a home run and got in the spotlight, what the hell is wrong with McCain…he’s taking the weekend off!!!11!!!”
Um, hello? Why try to make Sarah share the spotlight? McCain is confident enough to let a woman, and his veep candidate shine and get the attention she deserves.
But we should bash him for that?
It’s time to support the GOP ticket for anybody who isn’t working to put Obama in the White House.
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 4:54 PM
It won’t be long before McCain is asked about this…and of course, he will have to slap down Sarah and tell everyone that Obama is qualified. We must reach across to the aisle for good of the country. Country first.
John Doe on October 4, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Palin just put out the entire new narrative in two days:
Barack hearts a leftist domestic terrorist who bombed the US Capitol, but distances himself from US terror bomber troops in Afghanistan.
Now they let this marinate for a week or two then hit with the subprime manufactured crisis knockout punch.
econavenger on October 4, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Saw a 527 commercial last night that pointed out the Democratic ties to FM/FM corruption and pointed out that McCain has been trying to reform the mess for years.
Looks like the October push has begun.
Hope it’s not too little too late.
MarkTheGreat on October 4, 2008 at 5:02 PM
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities – all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/research/speech%20arena.htm
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Hahahaha, I love it
lodge on October 4, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Campaign Events Obama:
Last Week WI, MI, PA, NV, CO
1-4 Weeks Ago NH, NY, VA, NC, TN, MS, FL, NM, CA, MT, HI
Campaign Events McCain:
Last Week CO, IA, MO, OH
1-4 Weeks Ago FL, MS, TN, VA, PA, NY, MI, WI, MN
Two things really… first, years ago, I used to think of Rush as a right wing blowhard just making things up. Today, I realize he speaks the gospel… I do not doubt him. He says ignore the polls… I ignore the polls. The campaigns operate from internal polls that they DO NOT SHARE. From that, draw you own conclusions about what their polls tell them by where they have been going. Obama has withdrawn staff and resources from far more states than McCain.
Obama has dropped his 50 state approach. In the last 3 months, there are 24 (18 red and 6 blue) states that Obama HAS NOT visited. For McCain, that number is 20 (14 red and 6 blue). From this I conclude that Obama has given up on 18 red states and feels safe in 6 blue states. Using the same logic, it appears McCain has given up on only 6 blue states and feels quite safe in 14 red states.
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CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 5:06 PM
And we have tickets to see Palin here in Ft. Myers coming up (next week?).
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Hit Team Obama on their astroturfing attempt… especially whenever they mention swiftboating… they astroturf and get the media to carry water…
ninjapirate on October 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Witty article about Palin and Biden by Mark Steyn:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZmNjYTc3NzFiZGU1NjM2YmQ3NmMzNTM3NjJlNGMzMjU=
McCain needs to stop screwing around. Give Palin and her husband an open air flatbed truck (sp?); mount one of Todd’s “snow machines” on it; and tie effigies of Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and all the other Fannie and Freddie enablers to the back of the snow machine and drive them all around PA, OH, MI, WI, and MN doing stump speeches for the next month. That’ll get rid of the blue problem those states are having.
Heads will explode at MSNBC and MSM. Let them prove that these lowlifes weren’t at fault. Stop sugarcoating it.
McCain must stop talking about spending freezes and tax cuts for the wealthy. Those aren’t working. For tax cuts, take a minute to explain the benefits of lower top marginal tax rate for all large corporations (not just Big Oil)–people should be able to understand that a reduction of income taxes of 10% is worth a lot more in terms of keeping people employed than that 10% is worth after it has run through the Washington pork barrel. Get back on energy and call Obama out as the ethanol whore that he is. Where has ethanol got anyone other than Iowa farmers who are voting for Obama for that reason alone?
And someone get McCain to explain why Iraq isn’t paying for the war? That’s a big question. Biden posed it the other night, and it needs to be answered.
The snow machine, the effigies, and the blame on liberals for Fannie and Freddie are mandatory. Drag them through the mud. Pull the trigger.
BuckeyeSam on October 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM
You go Sarah. 100% true, straightforward, right to the heart.
McCain picked her, and is getting out of her way for a few days.
It’s time to support our ticket against the democrats, and especially against the media. The media is going to go all out to destroy Palin and McCain. If republicans help them with snark and belittling of our own ticket, Obama will most likely win.
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 5:12 PM
Send her and Mitt to Michigan. It’s the obvious thing to do. She wants to go. Let her. I’m assuming Mitt would do it.
SouthernGent on October 4, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Mac might as well go for broke on his commercials:
“Communists.
John McCain fought them. (show pic of Mac at Hanoi Hilton)
Barack Obama held parties at their houses. (show pic of Obama getting chummy with Ayers)
Any questions?”
Bishop on October 4, 2008 at 5:20 PM
I hope Romney has called the campaign to volunteer his services. He would be good in Michigan, Nevada, Colorado, and to try to help Steve Pearce in New Mexico.
I hope to see Rudy and Joe L spending time in Florida.
Sarah and Todd Palin can handle Ohio and Pennsylvania all by themselves :-).
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 5:29 PM
It just dawned on me; let’s replay the election of 1840. In that election, William Henry Harrison (ancient war hero nicknamed Tippecanoe) and vice-presidential running mate John Tyler ran using the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.”
If McCain is going to persist in this bipartisanship nonsense, consider a slogan of “Flyboy Mav and Palin Too.” Again, drive Palin and her husband all around PA, OH, MI, WI, and MN in a flatbed with a snow machine fastened on it, and paint those states red.
BuckeyeSam on October 4, 2008 at 5:35 PM
“Turn his soul wrong side outwards and there is not a speck on it.”
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison about James Monroe January 30, 1787
“Turn her soul wrong side outwards and there is not a speck on it.”
Gracie to Hot Air about Sarah Palin October 4, 2008
gracie on October 4, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Damn good idea BuckeyeSam!
Gracie (chick conceived from 2 old Buckeyes long time ago)
gracie on October 4, 2008 at 5:40 PM
For everyone who’s hollering McCain should do (pick your theme) I’d suggest hang out and wait a bit.
I mentioned before that perhaps after the bailout vote the Reps would hammer Obama hard on several fronts. Looks like that was a good prediction.
So keep your knickers untwisted, and just watch.
irongrampa on October 4, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Quote from current article by Kristol… does this make all the nay sayers here and some of the post topics we see make this part of the “colluding media”?
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Kid in school raises hand, “I have a question. What’s wrong with communists?”
It’s getting that bad out there.
capitalist piglet on October 4, 2008 at 5:48 PM
If McCain allows Nobama to say it’s a lie, or that it’s just not true, as a comeback to every criticism then McCain will lose. Every time Nobama calls the truth a lie McCain needs to attack.
mtbunji on October 4, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Obama has such charisma… then again, so did OJ.
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CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Those on our side who aid that effort by propagating the gloom and doom aren’t just being “realistic” or “honest” they are quitting on the field and taking people with them so as to create a self fulfilling prophecy.
TheBigOldDog on October 4, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Palin is in CA… add to my post above about where they have been. CA? Well well well…. and some people think they have given up on MI to fly all the way to CA. I smell a rat…
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 5:54 PM
Yep. McCain goes after FMFM and they win. They don’t, they lose.
It cannot be more simple than that.
lorien1973 on October 4, 2008 at 5:55 PM
irongrampa: same thing as “Don’t get your undies in a wad.”
We gotta do somethin’…can’t wait aroung for Gramps McCain to act while he’s taking a siesta in AZ. It was people on this blog and elsewhere that told his campaign to “Free Sarah”…let her talk…she’s like a dung beetle underneath Obama’s skin (Remember The Mummy?).
gracie on October 4, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Kid in school raises hand, “I have a question. What’s wrong with communists?”
It’s getting that bad out there.
capitalist piglet on October 4, 2008 at 5:48 PM
As the Chinese would say, “touché.”
Still, it would hit home with the voting adults. Obiffy needs to be tied with a cord of mithril to Ayers every single day until November
Bishop on October 4, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Gracie, get involved on a local level–juat as I did years ago. One person alone can’t change things, many over a period of time CAN. At this point, E-mails, calls,to the MSM WILL have an effect–it’s impossible to ignore us, remember the effort during the shamnesty bullshit? It can work again.
irongrampa on October 4, 2008 at 6:02 PM
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 5:54 PM
What does that rat smell like, that either Michigan or Cali are in play or what? I’m dense 87.3% of the time, so clue me in.
Bishop on October 4, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Will do, irongrampa, and thanx.
gracie on October 4, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Well, if they are truly losing ground in as many places as the “for public consumption” polls say they are, why in the world would she go to California? That’s hours of flying time and campaign $$$$ that they certainly wouldn’t be wasting. I go back to my earlier post in this thread about where they have gone recently and where they haven’t. They operate off internal polls that are not shared. If they are truly that nip and tuck in the “battle ground” states as the public polls say, wouldn’t she be banging away there instead of California? Basically, I’m saying that things are not what they seem.
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 6:16 PM
And she is speaking now in CA… she was introduced by the California NOW President (not Tammy Bruce). She introduced Palin as “what a true feminist looks like”. Introduced by NOW?
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Okey doke, though Palin must be in Cali purely for funding, I can’t believe any polling would ever put that state seriously in play.
Bishop on October 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM
I didn’t mean to make it sound as though I disagree with you. I don’t. I think this is a very important bit of information, and we definitely need to force it through the media wall.
capitalist piglet on October 4, 2008 at 6:23 PM
I have tickets for Palin her in Southwest Florida (Ft. Myers) Monday afternoon… they were free. That’s coast to coast in less than 48 hours. If it’s money, I hope she raises a ton out there.
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 6:26 PM
I’m inclined to agree, CC. The campaign DOES have access to info we can only dream of accessing – and they base their strategy on that and nothing else.
ManlyRash on October 4, 2008 at 6:29 PM
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 6:26 PM
It could be more of that insider knowledge that we don’t have, perhaps meeting with the heavyweight donors after the rallies?
Bishop on October 4, 2008 at 6:34 PM
She’s not just hitting Ayers, she mentioned the New York Times as her source for the Ayers connection.
Sweet.
The Caucus Blog at the NYT has the full quote from a pool report:
And they are hardly ever wrong? Bwahahahahahahaha! I wonder if she winked as she said that.
saint on October 4, 2008 at 6:36 PM
This is the sign of a desperate, faltering campaign.
philnewkirk on October 4, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Slightly OT: where the hell are the new threads, this is all we’re going to get today?
Bishop on October 4, 2008 at 6:39 PM
WHERE HAS THIS LADY BEEN?
Mojave Mark on October 4, 2008 at 6:41 PM
And yours is the comment of a desperately frightened astroturfer.
ManlyRash on October 4, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Hey, they gotta do something other than gynecology….
CC
CapedConservative on October 4, 2008 at 6:43 PM
AMEN
standing ovation
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Could’ve been a Tina Fey sighting. Was she curvacious or built like scarecrow on heroine?
fogw on October 4, 2008 at 6:46 PM
studying for her debate, and making lots of appearances like the one today
I think the debate study sessions paid off nicely, don’t you?
funky chicken on October 4, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Every Time I See Ed Morrisey post here – instead of “allahpundit” …….. I know that I’m getting some truth and faith in America!
grtflmark on October 4, 2008 at 6:47 PM
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